Leng Linli finally spoke, his tone indifferent yet impatient: "If it's not because of you, don't bother her."
After a pause, Leng Linli said in a deep, cold voice, "It's a problem between her and me."
Upon hearing this, Bai Lian's eyes flickered slightly, and she deliberately probed, "Is it the same question as last time?"
Leng Linli didn't answer, but his expression became even more serious, and Bai Lian knew that it was still the problem she had created last time.
Now is the perfect time for her to incite Leng Linli!
Leng Linli and Yan Zhi's relationship is unstable and they don't trust each other, which gave her an opportunity. If she puts in a little more effort, Leng Linli and Yan Zhi can get a divorce!
Thinking this way, Bai Lian felt exceptionally pleased. She pressed her advantage: "Brother, I have a way to test your wife's true feelings. Would you like to hear it?"
Leng Linli's gaze finally fell on Bai Lian, his expression still cold, but noticeably better than before.
Seeing this, Bai Lian was secretly delighted. As long as he was willing to listen, her plan was already half successful.
She leaned closer to Leng Linli, her voice tinged with barely concealed glee: "It's actually very simple, we just need to show off our affection and provoke her."
A triumphant glint shone in Bai Lian's eyes as she looked expectantly at Leng Linli. If he nodded, she would soon be able to kick Yan Zhi out of the house.
The light in Bai Lian's eyes gradually cooled and faded as she waited for Leng Linli's stern answer.
Without even much thought, Leng Linli rejected her outright: "Using reverse psychology won't work on her; it will only push her further away."
Some mistakes only need to be made once.
Leng Linli had been thinking about a question: when exactly did everything start to spiral out of control regarding Yan Zhi and him?
Leng Linli recalled that it seemed to have started from the night they got their marriage certificate...
That night, he was filled with rage. He took Bai Lian to the bridal chamber and, in revenge, followed the pre-arranged script. Standing on the moral high ground, he arrogantly said to Yan Zhi, "Bai Lian and I were originally lovers, but you fooled Grandma. I'm marrying you only because Grandma told me to. Are you happy now that you've broken me up with Bai Lian?"
His cold, resentful tone was tinged with a hint of disdainful clenching of teeth: "You think you can get everything by pleasing Grandma? Wishful thinking!"
Leng Linli thought that saying these retaliatory words would make him feel relieved.
But after saying these insincere words, Leng Linli felt no better at all!
He didn't see the expression he wanted to see on Yan Zhi's face either.
Leng Linli still clearly remembered the expression on Yan Zhi's face at that time: astonishment, blankness, and complete disbelief in her eyes. Finally, she only uttered six words softly and slowly: "So that's how it is..."
She went upstairs silently.
When she came downstairs, Yan Zhi carried her few pieces of luggage, and said with gentle grace and composure: "Mr. Leng, I have consulted with the authorities. Although we got our marriage certificate today, we can go to register for divorce tomorrow. I also thank you, Mr. Leng, for being willing to spend ten days to half a month to give me a false hope. See you at the Civil Affairs Bureau at 10 a.m. tomorrow."
Yan Zhi's expression at that time was cold and ruthless, and he would never forget it. That kind of resoluteness made him feel inexplicably flustered and caught him off guard.
He even began to regret that he shouldn't have used Bai Lian's idea and fabricated some kind of "white moonlight" to provoke Yan Zhi.
If Leng Linli hadn't used his grandmother's poor health as an excuse to delay the divorce and prevent her from leaving that night, Yan Zhi probably would have left without looking back.
From that night on, Yan Zhi changed and stopped caring about him.
Over the past month, Leng Linli deliberately ignored everything about her until she began to change.
Yan Zhi began to distance herself from him and ignore him. Starting from that night, she never took the initiative to contact him again.
She returned to her original self, independent and free, without dependence, as if she had never been in love.
Many things made Leng Linli slowly feel uncomfortable, and when she came to her senses, she was no longer in the same place.
Feeling lost and confused is the norm.
Leng Linli often thinks back to the harmonious days he spent with Yan Zhi, and whatever he sees, he can't help but think of things related to her.
Leng Linli often felt this state throughout the month, little by little...
Thinking back to the happy times they had before their marriage, even if it was just a facade he put on at the time...
Perhaps, he didn't put in so much effort to pretend; he simply followed his heart.
Yan Zhi, however, truly believed in the fabricated story of his "white moonlight" and left him without any hesitation.
From childhood to adulthood, every decision Leng Linli made in his life was correct.
However, he made a wrong decision: to pretend to be Bai Lian's lover in order to take revenge on Yan Zhi.
Rather than seeking revenge, Leng Linli wanted to see if Yan Zhi truly cared about him.
She really didn't care about him at all.
……wry smile.
Now, this wrong decision has left Leng Linli filled with regret, and he seems unable to change Yan Zhi's determination to leave him.
Over the past month, Leng Linli has come to realize that it is impossible for Yan Zhi to bow down to him or coax him.
He was stubborn, but she didn't care.
He was angry, but she didn't care.
Regardless of her initial reasons for marrying him, Leng Linli no longer wanted to pursue the matter.
As long as it's her, that's fine.
Hearing Leng Linli's resolute refusal, Bai Lian's smile froze on her lips, her heart skipped a beat, and her face turned deathly pale.
She didn't want to admit that after accompanying Leng Linli for so many years and working so hard, she had lost to Yan Zhi.
She was truly unwilling to accept it!
She was really indignant!
On what grounds?
She was the one who met Leng Linli first.
She and Leng Linli grew up together, childhood sweethearts, and she always thought she would marry Leng Linli.
Compared to other women, Leng Linli was not cold and ruthless towards her; he was very generous to her and even doted on her.
Bai Lian had always believed that Leng Linli would marry her and become his Mrs. Leng.
Until... Yan Zhi appeared.
All of this, overnight, really turned out to be... what she thought!
The intense look in Leng Linli's eyes when he looked at Yan Zhishi was something Bai Lian had never seen in Leng Linli before; he had never looked at her with that kind of gaze before.
Bai Lian knew that this was the look in a mature man's eyes when he looked at a woman he liked.
Bai Lian couldn't understand how her years-long relationship with Leng Linli could be no match for Yan Zhi's sudden appearance.
If she hadn't painstakingly woven lies and gone to great lengths to have someone synthesize the recording so that Leng Linli could hear with his own ears that Yan Zhi's rescue of her grandmother was not a coincidence but a deliberate scheme, Leng Linli and Yan Zhi might now be a loving couple deeply devoted to each other.
The reason why Leng Linli was able to be deceived by her tricks was simply because he was blinded by love. He was such a proud person that he would not allow any calculation in his feelings.
If Leng Linli listened to that recording more carefully, he would be able to tell that it was fabricated.
Bai Lian was certain that Leng Linli wouldn't listen to the recording a second time, which is why she dared to take the risk.
She knew Leng Linli too well; his proud pride would never allow him to hear it a second time.
Therefore, Bai Lian hated Yan Zhi to the extreme and was extremely jealous of her. She had given so much, and everything that originally belonged to her was easily taken away by Yan Zhi.
Bai Lian gritted her teeth and vowed in her heart that one day she would take back everything that belonged to her!
Mrs. Leng must be her!
Mrs. Leng can only be her!
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